Nathan C. Walker Email & Phone Number

Dr. Nathan C. Walker is the president of 1791 Delegates, a nonprofit organization named after the year the U.S. Bill of Rights was ratified. He is an award-winning First Amendment and human rights educator at Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Philosophy & Religion, where he teaches AI Ethics & Law as an Honors College faculty fellow and serves as the Principal Investigator of the AI Ethics Lab.He is a contributing researcher to the Munich Declaration of AI & Human Rights and a research associate at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is also an Expert AI Trainer for OpenAI's Human Data Team, providing expertise in First Amendment and human rights law to ensure the safety and accuracy of frontier models. He has presented his research at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the U.S. Senate. He previously served as a visiting academic at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and as a resident research fellow in law and religion at Harvard University. Dr. Walker published five books on law, education, and religion. Kirkus Reviews praised his book on the First Amendment and public education as “a thorough, magisterial account of a timely and historically important legal debate.” In 2016, Publishers Weekly recognized his book "Cultivating Empathy" as one of “six books for a post-election spiritual detox.”Nate has three learning disabilities and earned his doctorate in First Amendment law from Columbia University, where he completed two master’s degrees in higher education administration, specializing in finance and education technology. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Nate holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Walker founded ReligionAndPublicLife.org, a social learning community, directs the Foundation for Religious Literacy, and serves as board chair of the Public Religion Research Institute. Born in Munich, Germany, and raised in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada, Nate enjoys learning American Sign Language. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband, Vikram Paralkar.

Listed skills include Religion, Public Speaking, and Social Justice.